Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

Latin pecūniārius, from pecūnia, property, wealth.

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From Latin pecūniārius, from pecūnia ("money").

Examples

He had always feared that an alliance based on a footing that was so openly "pecuniary," — he declared that the word pecuniary expressed his meaning better than any other epithet, — could not lead to matrimonial happiness.

He had always feared that an alliance based on a footing that was so openly "pecuniary," -- he declared that the word pecuniary expressed his meaning better than any other epithet, -- could not lead to matrimonial happiness.

He had always feared that an alliance based on a footing that was so openly “pecuniary” — he declared that the word pecuniary expressed his meaning better than any other epithet — could not lead to matrimonial happiness.

If you look at the codes in many states, I don ` t care what your crime was, you don ` t get arrested and thrown behind bars on a technical pecuniary, which is a money infraction, like, you don ` t pay your restitution.